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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by nxm on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:04PM (#42925250)
A lot of what USAID was spending money on would shock people. Meanwhile, no money left to rebuild parts of the US
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by insane_dreamer on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:58PM (#42925904)
Oh please enough with the hand wavy bs. Give some examples of how much we are “saving” and what is being cut, and what it will be spent on to “rebuild” America (whatever tf that means). Then we can be the judges of how shocking or not it is.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by hirsin on Monday February 03, 2025 @08:23PM (#42926178)
HUD and FEMA alone are 2.5x larger than USAID's budget, so while I can't argue with the unsourced bit that it would be shocking, it's clear there is and was even more money being spent on Americans too.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by LastTrain on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:10PM (#42926692)
First, give some examples of what you are talking about. Second, we spend all kinds of money on things I don't agree with, which is how it works.
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